Of all of these Pink Floyd box sets that are going to be released in 2011 and 2012 I think The Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set has to be the one I’m most excited about for four reasons: #1 I think it’s one of the most perfect albums ever recorded and I’ve [...]

The Discovery Box Set This 16 disc box set includes all of Pink Floyd’s fourteen studio albums from 1967′s Piper at the Gates of Dawn to 1994′s The Division Bell. All of the albums have been digitally remastered by James Guthrie (who co-produced The Wall.) The Discovery Box Set also includes an exclusive 60 page [...]

Continuing the series I started with the 1960s, this is the top 10 pop/rock albums of the 1970s according to the ratings of the users of the RateYourMusic.com website (one of my favorite music related sites.) For the 1970s edition I’m adding the current ranking of each album on Amazon’s best selling music list. It’s [...]

As a huge fan of Syd Barrett I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about the new remastered Syd Barrett collection called “An Introduction to Syd Barrett” until today. What’s neat about this 18 track collection is that it is remastered and that it includes songs from his time as leader of Pink Floyd and from his [...]

The Vatican came out with a list of 10 recommended albums that is not altogether terrible (although there are some unusual choices.) Here it is: #1 The Beatles – Revolver The “hip” selection for #1 Beatles album. It’s not my #1, but most hipsters seem to think it’s the pinnacle of The Beatles output. I [...]

Some selected entries from this week’s billboard charts: #01 Vampire Weekend – Contra Is that a younger Britney Spears on the cover of this album? I haven’t heard this yet, so I can’t make any comments on the quality of the music. These days it’s quite unusual for someone other than a solo female act [...]

The Flaming Lips cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon will be released as a download only album on ITunes tomorrow. I’m personally boycotting buying this album because I hate ITunes. AmazonMP3 rules, and they really should have made this available there too. But I’ll still be listening to this one [...]

Alright, this is my third Thursday of taking a look at the Billboard 200 album charts. I don’t list every single album on the chart, I just pick out a few that I want to ramble on about. #1 – Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream (debut) The biggest single week sales of the [...]

The follow-up to The Flaming Lips new album, Embryonic, is going to be a cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic album Dark Side of the Moon according to this story from LA Times. Apparently they’ve already finished recording it (with help from a band named Stardeath and White Dwarfs that I don’t know anything about [...]

The following songs will both include Syd Barrett Era Pink Floyd material and selected songs from his short-lived solo career as well. Pink Floyd as Syd’s baby often had a genuine immediacy that one finds in the very best of Pop songs. The successful single “See Emily Play” is both a catchy commercial jingle and [...]